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Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes
Age: 66 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 1
Died: 1967
Died: May 22
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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
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There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
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I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.
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Your explanation depresses me, I said. Your nonsense depresses me, said Simple.
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Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
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When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.
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To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
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Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.
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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
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